Friend Request (German title: Unfriend) is a German horror film released in 2016, featering an English-speaking cast. The film is directed by Simon Verhoeven and stars actors Alycia Debnam-Carey and William Moseley.

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Laura (Alycia Debnam-Carey)
is one of the most popular students at her college and enjoys an active
social life with many friends and family members. She is active on social networks and has over 800 friends on Facebook. She lives with three friends, Olivia (Brit Morgan), Isabelle (Brooke Markham) and Gustavo (Sean Marquette). She is also close friends with Kobe (Connor Paolo) and is dating Tyler (William Moseley).

Laura receives a friend request from a student at her campus,
Marina Mills. Seeing her talents in animation, she accepts the request
and begins a friendship with the lonely girl. However she soon notices
that Marina's Facebook profile is plastered in bizarre and disturbing
images and her obsessive behavior begins to make Laura feel
uncomfortable. When Laura shares pictures of herself at her birthday
dinner – to which Marina was not invited – Marina publicly and angrily
confronts her at her college campus. During the quarrel, Laura
accidentally pushes Marina and her hood falls off, revealing her bald
spot, a result of hair pulling disorder,
causing Marina to run away. Laura notices Marina's several comments,
who tries to apologize to her, Laura eventually unfriends Marina on
Facebook. Seeing her number of friends once again down to zero, a
heartbroken Marina angrily closes her laptop. That night, Laura notices a
black mirror, which shows a forest where a dark figure is seen walking.
As Laura is staring at it, a terrifying demonic face appears behind
her, but quickly disappears when Olivia turns on the light. In the next
morning, teacher reveals that Marina has committed suicide, much to
Laura's astonishment.

Another night, Marina uploads a video, showing she burns the
drawing of Laura and commits suicide by hanging herself, terrifying
Laura.

The next morning, Laura receives a message from Marina containing
the video of her suicide. Later on, it is posted to her Facebook page.
Laura is unable to remove the video, and her friend count drops. Left
with no choice, she tries to delete her account, but an unknown error
occurs. Realizing that she is being stalked, Laura goes to Kobe's
apartment for help. When Kobe and Laura investigate Marina's Facebook
page, they realize that the source code where it has been written is not
the normal code.

That night, Marina adds Gustavo as a friend and posts a distorted
picture of his face. The lights suddenly cut off, he is then terrorized
by a spirit, while seeing things that were posted on Marina's page.
Gustavo rushes into the elevator for safety, only to be attacked by a
swarm of wasps; as the elevator doors opens, he is seen smashing his
face against the elevator walls by an unseen force, and is discovered by
Isabelle, who was sent to a hospital and begins to blame Laura for
Gustavo's death.

The recorded video of the elevator attack is posted on Laura's
Facebook page. Her friends subsequently turn against her by posting
angry and disgusted comments, effectively making her an outcast. Laura
attempts to text her friends that she didn't, but to her confusion, the
texts suddenly changes to "u will know what it feels to be lonely :)".
Laura goes to the orphanage where she meets the woman, who reveals that
Marina's real last name is Nedifar; Marina was ruthlessly bullied and
tormented by some boys when she was seven-years old. However, they were
murdered by an unknown assailant. Meanwhile, Kobe is looking for the black mirror on a website. He learns that they were used by witches.[4]
Suddenly, several faces of Marina appear on the monitors as the lights
begin flickering, but everything quickly reverts when the custodian
arrives.

A devastated Isabelle is going through pictures on her phone, she
begins hallucinating and notices the burnt body of a woman and rushes
to get help but finds that nobody is there. Horrified after seeing the
two men with their mutilated faces coming toward her, she rushes into
the bathroom and locks herself. To make matters worse, she finds the
body of herself before being killed by Marina. Laura goes with Detective
Cameron and his officer to watch the recorded footage of Isabelle which
showed that the hospital staff were there revealing that she was
hallucinating and slits her own throat out of madness, controlled by
Marina. The footage was later posted on Laura's Facebook page. Tyler,
Kobe and Olivia are unable to delete the videos, unfriend Laura or
deactivate their account as unknown errors keep occurring, Laura's
Facebook friend count continues to drop, while Tyler is looking for the
address of Marina's home. Olivia turns off her phone, alongside laptop
and moved out, fearing that she would share the same fate as Gustavo and
Isabelle before bids farewell to Laura. Later, Laura notices the
picture of Olivia from Marina's page, the picture slowly melts, implying
that she is next. Laura and Tyler rushes in to save her, but Olivia is
already attacked by Marina with wasps, hurled out of her window and
hospitalized in stable condition. When Tyler and Detective Cameron are
talking, Marina possesses Olivia through the heart monitor and lunges at
Detective Cameron's officer, taking the gun from him. Instead of
shooting the officer, she shoots herself in the head, killing Olivia.

Meanwhile, Laura hunts down the place where Marina committed
suicide in order to destroy the black mirror that turned Marina into an evil spirit,
she and Kobe go to Marina's house which was burnt down and attempt to
look for her. While there, Kobe sees an ethereal entity come out of the
basement and approaches him, but disappears when Laura bumps into him.
Laura tells him that Marina is not there, but he suggests that they look
in the basement.

Marina is not found in the basement, but while searching, Kobe is
separated from Laura, who finds him staring into a black mirror. When
she turns him around and asks what's wrong, he apologizes to Laura and
says that she can't be lonely if she died. Kobe suddenly stabs her in
the stomach, hoping to kill her in order to save himself and Tyler.
Laura hits him with her flashlight and escapes from the basement as Kobe
gives the chase but loses her. Laura then realizes through one of
Marina's posts that Marina committed suicide in one of the nearby
factories.

Meanwhile, Tyler finds a deranged Kobe looking for Laura. After
getting a call, Tyler and Kobe head to the factories as well, but he
tells Kobe to stay in the car while he tried to find Laura. Once getting
to the factories, a wounded Laura starts looking for Marina's body, she
receives a video call from her mother, Caroline, who informs that she's
been seeing Marina too. Laura's video call begins to glitch out as her
mother begins to act strangely, a sign that she may be attacked by
Marina. Caroline takes a knife from the table and goes to the other
room, presumably killing herself as the connection times out. Devastated
by her mother's presumed death, Laura begins to cry after seeing
everyone she's loved being taken away. Tyler soon finds her, only their
reunion is cut short when Kobe appears and stabs Tyler in the throat,
killing him. Laura attempts to escape Kobe once again but reaches a dead
end. However, before he can kill Laura, Kobe is violently attacked and
killed by the pack of wasps.

Laura, feeling dazed, sees an apparition of two men (presumably
the boys that bullied Marina in the orphanage). Laura yells at Marina,
asking what she wants from her, the spirit of younger Marina appears and
says that she wanted to be best friends with her as she leads Laura to
Marina's rotten corpse and her laptop which transports Laura into one of
Marina's earlier posts. Laura is then lunged at by a demonic Marina.

Some time has passed and there are fresh batch of students. Laura
is seen looking at some girls in the same way that Marina looked at
Laura and her friends in the beginning. Laura then faces her laptop
(which actually is Marina's laptop) and is shown to have zero friends,
just like Marina before she met Laura. Then her new account – which
shares the same dark, grotesque images and renamed as Lau Ra – is
revealed. The camera shows Laura's eyes are green and blue, implying
that Marina has possessed Laura.